Urban Coding and Planning

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<P>Urban codes have a profound influence on urban form, affecting the design and placement of buildings, streets and public spaces. Historically, their use has helped create some of our best-loved urban environments, while recent advances in coding have been a growing focus of attention, particularly in Britain and North America. However, the full potential for the role of codes has yet to be realized. </P><P></P><P>In <EM>Urban Coding and Planning</EM>, Stephen Marshall and his contributors investigate the nature and scope of coding; its purposes; the kinds of environments it creates; and, perhaps most importantly, its relationship to urban planning.</P><P></P><P>By bringing together historical and ongoing traditions of coding from around the world ¿ with chapters describing examples from the United Kingdom, France, India, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa, the United States and Latin America ¿ this book provides lessons for today¿s theory and practice of place-making.</P>

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